I love the Pictoplasma character design festival, every time I go I come back inspired to make new work. This year I was honoured to be asked to be a conference speaker at the event and to participate in a Character Portrait exhibition they were putting on. Thanks to Lars, Peter and all the Pictoplasma team for inviting me to be part of the festival this year. I can’t wait for the next one!

Above pictures,

Top: Giving my talk onstage at the conference

Bottom left: A drawing by Captain Lala done as I spoke

Bottom right: A shot from the stage as people watched The Planets

“I am a…”

A new animation made for the Pictoplasma Portrait Exhibition in Berlin, May 2014.

Here are some behind the scenes images taken while making my new animation “I am a…” for the Pictoplasma Portrait Exhibition.

Here is a link to the animation: http://vimeo.com/94017018

Here is an animated gif I made for the Music section on my new website. See it in situ here.

New showreel for 2014.

I’ve also refreshed my website with a new design and some new bits of animation and illustration. Check it out here.

On the 8 April I will be speaking at See No Evil as well as the very talented Tom Muller. If you are in London you should come along. I’ll be playing the full animated short of ‘The Planets’ and showing for the first time anywhere my new stop motion short 'Plasticine Rhythm’ as well as some other bits and pieces.

The ‘Selfie’ guy’s actual selfie.

Here’s the page of brainstorming I did for “Selfie”.

A 60 second warning about self obsession.

This was created for the Pictoplasma #CharacterSelfie project which you can follow and contribute to at characterselfies.tumblr.com/

Some behind the scenes shots from a little stop motion shoot. This forms a small part of a new short animation created for the Pictoplasma #CharacterSelfie project.

Here’s a behind the scenes look at the mini televisual props I’ve being using today to create my upcoming stopmotion animated short.

Just received delivery of these postcards and stickers for ‘The Planets’.

An illustration for a pitch that didn’t go my way.

This week I’ve been making some merchandise for The Planets project. I’m creating stickers and postcards but first up was a production of planet badges.

Here is an animated gif of a falling meteor from the upcoming final Planet animation ‘Planet Twelve’.

A spread of Planet Four initial drawings from my sketchbook.

Each year for my nephew’s birthday I draw him a picture of a character called Vincent in a different animal suit. Yesterday he was two so I drew Vincent in a Toucan outfit.

A random illustration.

A spread of Planet Three initial drawings from my sketchbook.

This is the fourth of four large Illustrated Aliens prints.

You can buy one at the Handymartian Society6 shop.